Territory and environment in the Peasant Reserve Zones of Colombia
Abstract
This article is based on an original research that focuses on analyzing the concept of environmental land use planning in the Peasant Reserve Zones (ZRC) of Colombia from the perspectives of the State and the peasantry. First, it situates the geographical dimension of the analysis with the concepts of space and territory. Then, it takes conceptual tools from the agrarian question to situate the ZRC as part of an agrarian reform in the 1990s. It emphasizes on how the agrarian question scope has a bias on economic behavior ignoring the sense of territorial construction of proposals such as the ZRC in the frame of State land planning. It illustrates some examples of organizational structures (e.g., local action committees, JAC) and local space dynamics (vereda and Peasant Environmental Units, UACA) to construct its argument. The objective of this article is to articulate economic debates of the agrarian question within a geographic scope focused on territory to analyze how the ZRC are peasant territorial proposals where environmental aspects play a crucial role in negotiating territoriality with the State. Finally, the article invites to a reflection on the meaning of “the environmental” in contemporary peasant struggles.Downloads
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